Genus Spectrunculus Jordan and Thompson, 1914

Museums

Regional Maps

• Spectrunculus Jordan, D.S. & Thompson, W.F. 1914. Record of the fishes obtained in Japan in 1911. Memoirs of the Carnegie Museum 6(4): 205-313 figs 1-87 pls 24-42 [301].

  Type species:

   Spectrunculus radcliffei Jordan and Thompson, 1914 by monotypy.
• Parabassogigas Nybelin, O. 1957. Deep-sea bottom fishes. Report of the Swedish Deep-Sea Expedition 1947–1948 2(20): 247-345 [298].

  Type species:

   Sirembo grandis Günther, 1877 by original designation, see Günther, A. 1877. Preliminary notes on new fishes collected in Japan during the expedition of H.M.S. Challenger. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 4 20(56): 433-446 [437].

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Nielsen, J.G., Cohen, D.M., Markle, D.F. & Robins, C.R. 1999. Ophidiiform Fishes of the World. An annotated and illustrated catalogue of pearlfishes, cusk-eels, brotulas and other ophidiiform species known to date. FAO Fisheries Synopsis No. 125 Vol. 18. 178 pp. [49]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Circumglobal

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Southeast Transition (11), Tasman Basin Province (13), Lord Howe Province (14)

General References

Cohen, D.M. & Nielsen, J.G. 1978. Guide to the identification of genera of the fish order Ophidiiformes with a tentative classification of the order. National Marine Fisheries Service (U.S.). Technical Report 417: 1-72 figs 1-103 [36 as Parabassogigas, 39 as Spectrunculus]

Nielsen, J.G., Cohen, D.M., Markle, D.F. & Robins, C.R. 1999. Ophidiiform Fishes of the World. An annotated and illustrated catalogue of pearlfishes, cusk-eels, brotulas and other ophidiiform species known to date. FAO Fisheries Synopsis No. 125 Vol. 18. 178 pp. [49, 90]

Nielsen, J.G. & Cohen, D.M. 1986. Family No. 96: Ophidiidae. pp. 345-350 in Smith, M.M. & Heemstra, P.C. (eds). Smith's Sea Fishes. Johannesburg : Macmillan South Africa xx + 1047 pp. 144 pls. [350]

Nielsen, J.G. & Hureau, J.-C. 1980. Revision of the ophidiid genus Spectrunculus Jordan & Thompson, 1914, a senior synonym of Parabassogigas Nybelin, 1957 (Pisces, Ophidiiformes). Steenstrupia 6: 149-169 [149]

Uiblein, F., Nielsen, J. G. & Møller, P. R. 2008. Systematics of the ophidiid genus Spectrunculus (Teleostei: Ophidiiformes) with a resurrection of S. crassus. Copeia 3: 542-551 [543]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
	OPHIDIIFORMES	10-Aug-2011	ADDED	Dr Dianne Bray (NMV) Dr Doug Hoese (AM) Dr Matthew Lockett (AM)